July

July seems to me to have been an awfully long month.

It started off on a sad note because our cat River Song got killed by a car. We do live by a very busy road and unfortunately River did like to risk the fast cars to go and explore. The person who hit her sped off apparently  but thankfully the nice lady in the car behind stopped and placed her on the pavement, and as the couple who were there knew River was ours, sent the lady to our house to tell us the sad news.


Onto the next part of July, the Heat wave. Almost two weeks of brilliant sunshine. But as a typical Brit, I did start to get a bit fed up with the constant heat, and have welcomed the recent cooler weather.
We did make the most of it though and made lovely memories at the seaside.

　
B, though, did get stung by a Jelly Fish, and was a bit poorly.
　
　
Home Education has now finished for the Summer, so lazy days for the children. During the heat wave a lot of time was spent at our local park where they have a lovely little pool.

　
　
　
　
Also during this month, D entered a three Discus competitions, coming 2^nd in the regional competition, and then 1^st in the latter two, one in Plymouth, the other in Exeter. This is in the under 15 boys, which is a funny age group to be in when you are only 12.

Also I took J to the Fair for the first time, he did have fun on some of the rides, but was distracted at all the stalls where you could win giant prizes, but for which he was to little to even attempt, so mixed views on whether he would like to go there again.  D was there with the rugby boys as they had just finished training, so they all piled onto the bouncy castle which was quite funny.

More serious stuff now, J had his appointment with his Epilepsy Specialist. He is now being weaned off of his medication, as the Doctor is pretty sure that he will grow out of the Epilepsy, it is quite common.  So for 8 weeks his dosage will decrease, and by September he will be meds free - if he starts having seizures again, he will be weaned back on them, and them it will be considered that as he is older, to try a different medication, which will not have a side affect on making him slightly hyper, and will help his attention span settle a bit more.  Not thinking of this scenario though, as I am praying that he has grown out of it.  Please Please Please.

In that week I decided to take him to Crealy, we were supposed to be going on D;s birthday weekend, but as he will have been two weeks into his weaning period, I though it safer to take him before it kicks in.

He had a brilliant time, although, dare I moan about the sunny weather, it really was too damn hot!

Last weekend we went to The Kiribati Tungaru get together - which involved a family that we know who live in our town, and who are involved with our rugby team.

I took J to watch the dancing in the afternoon

Moving onto August tomorrow - starting withmy Son D's 13th Birthday- another teen in the house!